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Author : KARON H. GRIEVE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909266216
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (662 download)
Download or read book SIMPLY SCOTTISH CAKES AND BAKES. written by KARON H. GRIEVE and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karon H. Grieve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909266018
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Simply Scottish written by Karon H. Grieve and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin Russell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499091044
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Who Made the Scottish Enlightenment? written by Colin Russell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish Enlightenment is often portrayed as elitist and Edinburgh based with no universally agreed beginning or end. Additionally, the Philosophers and scholars (the great Scottish Enlightenment figures) sometimes obscure significant contributions from other disciplines so that the achievements of a wider conception of the Scottish Enlightenment are not universally known. Sir Walter Scott also recognised that his nation 'the peculiar features of whose manners and character are daily melting and dissolving into that of her sister and ally' had an identity crisis. Both issues are addressed in this enquiry which seeks to highlight the scale and breadth of the Scottish Enlightenment whilst posing the question as to how Scottish identity can be preserved.
Author : Asifa M. Hussain
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199280711
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Multicultural Nationalism written by Asifa M. Hussain and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the focus is on black or Asian minorities, Britain is frequently described as a multi-cultural state. But when the focus is on Scotland, England and Wales, Britain is also described as a multi-national state. Yet debates about multiculturalism and nationalism have been held in parallel without sharing even a common vocabulary. This book is a pioneering study of how multiculturalism interacts with multinationalism, especially within post-devolution Scotland.It gives equal attention to Scotland's largest 'visible' and 'invisible' minorities: ethnic Pakistanis (almost all of them Muslim) and English immigrants. Rising Scottish self-consciousness could have posed a challenge both these minorities. But in practice, potential problems have proved themselves to be solutions, integrating rather than alienating.In the eyes of the minorities, devolution has made Scots at once more proud and less xenophobic. Even English immigrants feel devolution has defused tensions, calmed frustrations, and forced Scots to blame themselves rather than others for their problems. Pakistanis have suffered increasing harassment - but they attribute that to 9/11 not to devolution. And Muslims adopt Scottish identities, Scottish attitudes, even Scottish nationalism - consciously or unconsciously using these as tools ofintegration.The book is based in part on large-scale surveys: of Pakistani and English minorities within Scotland, and of the majority populations in Scotland and England. But it is also based on systematic analysis of transcripts of focus-group discussions with minorities revealing the variety of opinion within minorities as well as the contrasts between them. In particular, it presents a unique account of how Scottish Muslims express their feelings in a time of crisis.
Author : Gordon Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471137503
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book My Scotland, Our Britain written by Gordon Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Scotland, Our Britain: A Future Worth Sharingis a highly personal account of Gordon Brown's Scotland, the nation he was born in; and our Britain, the multinational state that the Scots, English, Welsh and Northern Irish have created and share. Laying bare his family's ancestry over 300 years of the Union and explaining how it shaped his background, Brown charts what it was like growing up in Scotland in the 1950s and 1960s and explains the influence of religion, education and Scotland's unique industrial structure on the shaping of his and Scotland's identity. He sets out the dramatic economic, social and cultural changes of the past 50 years and the vastly different prospects his children will face, demonstrating that a sense of Scottish national identity has always remained strong and how Scottish institutions have always fiercely guarded their independence. Written before the referendum, Brown argued in My Scotland, Our Britainthat the choice before Scots should not have been seen as a battle between Scotland and Britain. Instead, in tune with Scotland's history of deep engagement with the wider world - as inventors, explorers, traders, missionaries, business leaders and aid workers - the best future for Scots was not to leave Britain but to continue to lead it. Now, with a new afterword Brown reflects upon the referendum campaign, the rejection of independence by the Scottish people, and he continues to make the case for a constitutional settlement that further unites the country.
Author : Rivka Swenson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611486793
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 written by Rivka Swenson and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Locke asked, “since all things that exist are merely particulars, how come we by general terms?” Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 tells a story about aesthetics and politics that looks back to the 1603 Union of Crowns and James VI/I’s emigration from Edinburgh to London. Considering the emergence of British unionism alongside the literary rise of both description and “the individual,” Rivka Swenson builds on extant scholarship with original close readings that illuminate the inheritances of 1603, a date of considerable but untraced importance in Anglo-Scottish literary and cultural history whose legacies are still being negotiated today. The 1603 Union of Crowns spurred interest in exploring the aesthetic politics of unionism in relation to an alleged Scottish essence that could be manipulated to resist or support “Britishness,” even as the king’s emigration generated a legacy of gendered representations of traveling Scots and “Scotlands-left-behind.” Discussing writers such as Bacon, Defoe, Smollett, Johnson, Macpherson, Ferrier, and Scott along with lesser-known or forgotten popular authors (and ballads, transparencies, newspapers, joke books, cant dictionaries, political speeches, histories, travel narratives, engravings, material artifacts such as medals and snuffboxes), Essential Scots describes the years 1603 to 1832 as a crucial period in British history. Paradoxically, the political and cultural exploration of ideas about “unionism” in relation to a supposed “essential Scottishness” participated in the increasing prominence of both description and the “individual” in nineteenth-century Scottish literature; Swenson persuasively concludes that essential Scottishness (as both “identity” and symbolism) was refigured to mediate a national synthesis between the emergent individual and the nascent British nation—as well as the naturalized, even de-politicized, literary synthesis of particulars within putatively analogous narrative wholes.
Author : David Torrance
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147444783X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Standing Up for Scotland written by David Torrance and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Torrance combines nationalist theory with empirical historical and archival research to reassess the relationship between 'nationalism' and 'unionism' in Scottish politics, challenging a binary reading of the two ideologies with the concept of 'nationalist unionism'.
Author : Hugh Bochel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136331751
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Scotland Decides written by Hugh Bochel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland has a parliament for the first time in almost 300 years, and this book is an account of how this came about. The authors trace the origins and history of the demand for home rule in Scotland, focusing particularly on developments following the failure of the first referendum on the issue in 1979, which culminated in a second referendum in September 1997. This major political event attracted national and international interest, and its decisive result was a milestone in Scottish history. This work presents an analysis of the referendum campaign at both national and local levels, including media coverage of the event and the outcome. The reactions of voters are explored on the basis of a large survey of the electorate, and lessons to be learnt about referendums in the UK and elsewhere are discussed.
Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9781898410386
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Exploring the Scottish Past written by Thomas Martin Devine and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of fifteen essays written over the last twenty years by one of Scotland's most eminent historians. The material concentrates on four broad themes in seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish history: Merchants, Unions and Trade; Scottish Economic Development; The Highlands; and the Rural Lowlands.
Author : Fiona Ritchie
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469666278
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Wayfaring Strangers written by Fiona Ritchie and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.
Author : Clive Archer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773505124
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Scotland's Voice in International Affairs written by Clive Archer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1980 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1977, the Scottish Branch of the Royal Institute of International Affairs established a study group to consider the representation of Scottish interests abroad. The members of the group were drawn from the Scottish universities as well as from business and banking in Scotland. The study began with a series of discussion meetings at which the group as a whole was able to draw on the knowledge and experience of, among others, Mr Alick Buchanan-Smith MP; Mr Stanley Budd, Head of the Edinburgh Office of the Commission of the European Communities; Mr J. Allan Stewart, Scottish Secretary of the Confederation of British Industry; Mr A.S. Halford-MacLeod of the Scottish Council (Development and Industry); and senior officials of the Scottish Office. Individual members of the group then undertook a programme of interviews with representatives of the fishing industry, in particular Mr Gilbert Buchan and Mr David Aitchison of the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, Mr James Lovie of the Scottish Fishermen's Organisation Ltd and Mr Robert Allan of the Scottish Section of the British Fishing Federation; with representatives of the agriculture industry, notably, Mr Michael Burnett of the National Farmers' Union of Scotland, Mr Dermot Gunn of the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society and Mr A.F. Roney-Dougal of the Scottish Landowners' Federation; and with representatives of Scottish local authorities and the relevant departments of the Scottish Office.
Author : David McCrone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134529589
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Understanding Scotland written by David McCrone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jo E. Murkens
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474471196
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Scottish Independence written by Jo E. Murkens and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independence is ever-present on the Scottish political agenda. This book is the first serious study of the likely road to independence, and the consequences for the Scottish people and the Scottish economy.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Scottish Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215047519
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Referendum on Separation for Scotland, Session 2012-13 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Scottish Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For related report, see HCP 542 (ISBN 9780215047519)
Author : Richard Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509963723
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Sceptical Perspectives on the Changing Constitution of the United Kingdom written by Richard Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the far-reaching changes made to the constitution in the United Kingdom in recent decades. It considers the way these reforms have fragmented power, once held centrally through the Crown-in-Parliament, by means of devolution, referendums, and judicial reform. It examines the reshaping of the balance of power between the executive, legislature, and the way that prerogative powers have been curtailed by statute and judicial ruling. It focuses on the Human Rights Act and the creation of the UK Supreme Court, which emboldened the judiciary to limit executive action and even to challenge Parliament, and argues that many of these symbolised an attempt to shift the 'political' constitution to a 'legal' one. Many virtues have been ascribed to these reforms. To the extent that criticism exists, it is often to argue that these reforms do not go far enough. An elected upper chamber, regional English parliaments, further electoral reform, and a codified constitution are common tonics prescribed by commentators from this point of view. This volume adopts a different approach. It provides a critical evaluation of these far-reaching reforms, drawing from the expertise of highly respected academics and experienced political figures from both the left and right. The book is an invaluable source of academic expertise and practical insights for the interested public, students, policymakers, and journalists, who too often are only exposed to the 'further reform' position.
Author : Murray Stewart Leith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748688625
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Political Discourse and National Identity in Scotland written by Murray Stewart Leith and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses issues of national identity and nationalism in Scotland from a political and linguistic perspective.
Author : Art. West Haddan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents Relating to Great Britain and Ireland written by Art. West Haddan and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
